Categorization bias

  • N papers = 9, N experiments = 80, N participants = 328
  • In a triad-task, bias to generalize to taxonomic as opposed to thematic alternative.
  • Curator is Molly Lewis

Baldwin, D. A. (1992). Clarifying the role of shape in children's taxonomic assumption. Journal of experimental child psychology, 54(3), 392-416.

Bauer, P. J., & Mandler, J. M. (1989). Taxonomies and triads: Conceptual organization in one-to two-year-olds. Cognitive Psychology, 21(2), 156-184.

Greenfield, D. B., & Scott, M. S. (1986). Young children's preference for complementary pairs: Evidence against a shift to a taxonomic preference. Developmental Psychology, 22(1), 19.

Sachs, O., Weis, S., Krings, T., Huber, W., & Kircher, T. (2008). Categorical and thematic knowledge representation in the brain: Neural correlates of taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations. Neuropsychologia, 46(2), 409-418.

Markman, E. M., & Hutchinson, J. E. (1984). Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning: Taxonomic versus thematic relations. Cognitive psychology, 16(1), 1-27.

Waxman, S. R., & Hall, D. G. (1993). The development of a linkage between count nouns and object categories: evidence from fifteen‐to twenty‐one‐month‐old infants. Child development, 64(4), 1224-1241.

Waxman, S. R., & Namy, L. L. (1997). Challenging the notion of a thematic preference in young children. Developmental Psychology, 33(3), 555.

Nguyen, S. P., & Murphy, G. L. (2003). An Apple is More Than Just a Fruit: Cross‐Classification in Children's Concepts. Child development, 74(6), 1783-1806.

Lucariello, J., Kyratzis, A., & Nelson, K. (1992). Taxonomic knowledge: What kind and when?. Child development, 63(4), 978-998.

In a triad-task, bias to generalize to taxonomic as opposed to thematic alternative.

Search strategy: Seeded with Smiley and Brown (1979) in Google Scholar + manual search

Systematic: no